Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-23
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AhoWh person pi6clns d Tie dcrOss tue Track.
The wrecking train from Chicago cleared the
track by $50. The Omaha express train was
delayed two hours.
CHICAGO, April l2.-The remains Of a we'll
dressed man were found by a farmer of Nilee
center, a small town ten miles north Of here,
late yesterday afternoon In the woods east OF
the village. A short piece Of rope was around
his neck and from the limb OF a tree above
was hanging a length of rope, which was rot
ten and is supposed to have been broken by
the weight OF the body. The body does not
appear to have laid more than a day or two.
1t is thought the man tray have been muir
dered by tramps.
CHICAGO, April 12.-Sixty stove moulders,
employed by the Chicago Stove wolks, quit
work to-day on the refusal of the con pany to
withdraw B idge, Bach 81 Co.'s patterns.
Forty men, mostly apprentices, remain at
work. Mr.. Busse, Of the Chicago Stove works,
said the strike would not il ju e the firm, and
they were bound TO do all work they could for
the boy cotted c. mpany. The strike Is ex-
pected to spread 10 every shop of stove manu-.
facturers. The union strikers refused to
talk.
Dies MONIES, April l3.-The governor has
RENTED 1900 Of the $500 fine placed upon
John Spillets, OF Whittemore, Kossuth coun.
ty, for alleged violation of the prohihition
law, involving a singular case. II has been
show that Spiliets kept a temperance billiard
hall, but that a crowd Of drunken roughs
forced their way In, compelled hin to open a
bottle Of whis Y they furnished and deal it
sut to the crowd For this offense he was
tried and fined, and the governor considers
the mitigating circumstances sufficient to
merit a remission Of most Of the fine.
PT. DODSE, April 13.-Olson Roberts, a
salcelor about fifty years old, residing eight
miles southeast OF this city committed suicide
yesterday by hanging. AS he was In good
circumstances il is thought he committed the
deed while ~laboring under a temporary fit of
insanity.
DUBUQUE, Ia, April l3-At S O'Clock last
night ten prisoners Ia the Dubuque county
jail escaped by tearing out a portion Of the
east wall and climbing down q distance Of
s"'''N ANN WI % ''NFAhAifE w.. Jul VI tht
prisoners had j ist been sentenced to terms in
the peuitentiary II one year each, and two of
them were waiting trial for robbing the
post, flee at Elkader.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Arrii IS There is pros
pect Of some trouble AT the state house with
the railroad and other foreign corporations
that have complied with the Sweeney law.
Now that the law has been declared unconsti-
tutiODal the railroads want the fees returned
which they have paid under it. The governor
says the state cannot be sued and that the
money has gone into the treasury and cannot
be taken ont again except by special act of
the legislature.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, April 13.-Peter Froe-
licb, the murderer Of Mundbrood, was again
convicted of msnslaughter, In the district
court at Marion. He was granted a re-
hearing by the supreme cnnrt on technically.
The sentence will probably be the same as
before.
County Recorder Kurez suffered paralytic
stroke of left leg this morning at Marion.
S~IGoURNEY, Ia, April 12.-The jury in the
ease Of David Duke, tried for the murder Of
DR.. Birtowt Oct. 20, 1885, in a quarrel in re-
gard to the Rlchland postonice, acquitted
Duke on the ground of self-defense.
MASON CITY, Iowa, April Is. One of the
the most severe ram and hailstorm that ever
swept down u, on this section Of the state was
that of to-day. Hail as large as swallow eggs
fell to the d. pfh Of bali an inch. 1t is feared
that growing fruit will be damaged. During
the storm the large barn belonging to n. j.
Judd was struck by lightning and burned to-
gether with over fifty tons of hay. No insur-
ance. Mrs. JGdd was in the barn at the time
it was struck and was badly stunned, but
narrowly escaped the ravages Of the fire.
DUBUQUE, A.ril Thames F. Wilson Of
Fairfield yesterday afternoon opened the argu-
ments in the liquor cases in the United States
circuit court, for the plaintiff, before a full
bench. Fouke OF Dubuque followed for the
the defendants, and Emery OF Ottumwa for
Plaintiffs, and Mr.. Gibson of Chicago for de-
PENDANTS. This morning Lehman, OF Des
Hoines spoke for defendants. Emery closed.
Judge Love yesterday intimated TO Emery
that the state could not possibly use brewery
and saloon property held before 1884 without
compensation. Judge Brewer yesterday de.
elared to Emery that brewers had acquired
vested rights, therefore they must be c,m-
pensated, and that the law deprived them of
the right to be tried by jury and took prop
crty without due process OF law, and Is there
fore contrary to the national constitution.
The habeas corpus phase of the liquor cases
was argued this afternoon. Rannells, Of Des
Aoines, and Parker, Of Marshalltown, spoke
on the indictments and pleas In abatement
for defendants. Twenty-four attorneys are
engaged.
BALTIMORE, Md, April 14.-News was re
ceived here that the business portion of the
town OF Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss
$50, 600.
MILWAUKEE,, April 12.-The stove moulders
employed in the Brand Stove company's works
and j. Butchers foundry, want out this
morning rather than work on st. Louis pat
terms.
CHICAGO, April Pit is now all but GER
tain that the carpenters have carried their
point and will return 20 woak tomorrow on
their own terms, viz. thirty. FIVE cunts per
nnur